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The senior order, the Order of the Star of India, was divided into three grades, Knight Grand Commander, Knight Commander and Companion, of which the first and highest was conferred upon the Princes and Chiefs of Indian states and upon important British civil servants working in India. Women were not eligible to receive the award.
An order of knights is a community of knights composed by order rules with the main purpose of an ideal or charitable task. The original ideal lay in monachus et miles (monk and knight), who in the order – ordo (Latin for 'order' / 'status') – is dedicated to a Christian purpose. The first orders of knights were religious orders that were ...
The Order of the British Empire. Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood. ISBN 978-0-907605-65-2. Hood, Frederic (1967). The Chapel of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. With a foreword by Prince Philip. Weatherly, Cecil (1911). "Knighthood and Chivalry" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.).
Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order GCVO; Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire GBE; Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour CH; Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB/DCB; Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India [note 1] KCSI; Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael ...
It is the world's oldest national order of knighthood in continuous existence and the pinnacle of the British honours system (after the Victoria Cross and George Cross). Its membership is extremely limited, consisting of the Sovereign, the Prince of Wales —both being members ex officio and gaining membership upon acceding to one of the titles ...
Coat of arms of the British monarch as sovereign of the Order of the Bath. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath [2] is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725. [3] Recipients of the Order are usually senior military officers or senior civil servants, and the monarch awards it on the advice of His Majesty's Government.
The most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system, it is outranked in precedence only by the decorations of the Victoria Cross and the George Cross. The Order of the Garter is dedicated to the image and arms of Saint George, England's patron saint.
Knights Bachelor come after Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Wives of Knights Companion of the Order of the Garter, Knights of the Order of the Thistle, and Knights Grand Cross, Knights Commanders, and Commanders or Companions of the other orders receive precedence based on their husbands' positions.